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Business Development Manager – Data Centres | UK & Ireland
Fully Remote | UK & Ireland Market | Data Centres | Power & Energy
The UK and Ireland data centre market is experiencing extraordinary growth, driven by AI, cloud, and ever-increasing demand for power.
I’m partnering with a fast-growing international energy solutions business looking for an ambitious Business Development Manager to help build its presence across the UK & Ireland data centre market.
You can be based anywhere across Western or Northern Europe, however fluent, professional English is absolutely paramount, alongside demonstrable experience of working with and supporting customers across the UK & Ireland. This is a highly customer-facing role, with regular client interaction and travel within the UK to build relationships face to face.
This is an opportunity to build something.
You’ll join an established European business with strong technical capability and significant growth ambitions, working alongside a highly influential Business Development Director with an exceptional network across the data centre market. Engaging, bright, and ambitious, they are someone you can learn a huge amount from while developing your own network, profile, and career within the sector.
What will you be doing?
Taking ownership of business development across the UK & Ireland, you’ll be responsible for identifying opportunities, developing relationships, and ultimately winning new business.
You will:
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- Identify, develop, and secure new business opportunities across the UK & Ireland data centre market
- Build relationships with data centre operators, developers, contractors, consultants, and strategic partners
- Manage the full sales cycle, from prospecting and initial engagement through solution development, commercial negotiation, and close
- Work closely with engineering and operational teams to develop technically credible, customer-focused power and energy solutions
- Develop a strong understanding of customers’ projects, challenges, and future requirements, identifying where the business can add value
- Build market intelligence around upcoming projects, investment, and customer activity and turn this into a clear business development strategy
- Represent the business at client meetings, industry events, and conferences, building both your own profile and the company’s presence within the sector
This is not an Account Management role.
We are looking for someone who can demonstrate a strong track record in new business sales and business development, particularly in creating opportunities, opening new relationships, and converting those opportunities into revenue.
Do you need data centre experience?
Yes.
You will need proven experience of selling into the data centre market and an understanding of how the sector operates. Whether your customers have been developers, operators, general contractors, EPCs, consultants, or other organisations across the data centre ecosystem, the important thing is that you understand the market, its customers, and how to navigate it commercially.
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What you've sold is less important. You could come from power, energy, electrical infrastructure, cooling, industrial rental, or another technical product or service. What matters is that you can demonstrate a strong track record of developing relationships, creating opportunities, and winning new business within the data centre sector.
You'll be commercially driven, credible, entrepreneurial, and comfortable creating your own opportunities. You'll also be comfortable spending significant time speaking with customers, presenting solutions, and meeting clients face to face, with travel across the UK & Ireland as required.
Why join?
Data centres and energy are becoming increasingly interconnected. Power availability, resilience, and speed to deployment are fundamental to the growth of the sector, putting this business right at the heart of an incredibly exciting market.
You'll have autonomy, excellent leadership, and the opportunity to build a significant territory within a growing international organisation.
There is real earning potential, genuine career progression, and the opportunity for this role to become much bigger as the market grows.
If you're a proven salesperson who wants to build something, develop within the data centre sector, and be rewarded for the value you create, I'd love to hear from you.
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